Abstract World

I don’t normally shed tears when a video game ends. I hardly ever pause in the middle of a playthrough to appreciate…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has slowly expanded with new side missions and mercenaries battles, and while those might…

In a burnt-out, four-story shopping mall on the eastern outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, one room blared with the…

I first played Half-Life in 1998 and played it again recently for a series of livestreams on Twitch. It’s been 20…

From tip to tail, Red Dead Redemption 2 is a profound, glorious downer. It is the rare blockbuster video game that…

Once upon a time I painted a lot. I won some minor awards in high school, and I almost studied art in college. But…

Yes, Anathem, the Locus-winning science fiction novel published in 2008. Over an arduous few weeks, I have read Anath…

When I arrive at the headquarters of Brianna Wu For Congress, a modest house near the bottom of a quiet street in…

Ship of Theseus is a straightforward game. You are given dozens of body parts with which to design and construct an…

Last week, I documented the constant low-level anxiety I had been feeling about cooling the CPU in my gaming PC. I’d…